Lake Alice
"Their first holiday together ... may be their last!"
The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last…
"Their first holiday together ... may be their last!"
The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last…
Brando Eaton
Tyler Patterson
Michael Shamus Wiles
Hank
Peter O'Brien
Greg Thomas
Eileen Dietz
Jane Patterson
Laura Niemi
Natalie Thomas
Craig Rees
Deputy Reed
Brad Schmidt
Ryan Emerson
Caroline Tudor
Sarah Thomas
Patrick Burch
Carl
The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last…
I've gotta be honest. We watched _Lake Alice_ for exactly two reasons. 1) It has a cool poster. 2) I live with a girl named Alice. That's it. That's all I had to go on as far as expectations went. Yet somehow, it's so awful, I managed to disappointed all the same. No character is likeable, virtually no decision makes sense, the cool poster is a lie, and despite only half paying attention, we were all able to discern the killer's identity, through nothing more than process of elimination. _Final rating:★ - Of no value. Avoid at all costs._
_**A cabin-in-the-woods in northern Wisconsin during Christmas**_ A family consisting of mother, father, daughter and boyfriend take a retreat to a cabin at Lake Alice, Wisconsin, during the Holidays, but the joys of the season take a deadly turn when a mysterious slayer suddenly emerges. "Lake Alice" (2018) is a modern slasher Indie in the mold of traditional slashers with the tropes thereof, e.g. the silent killer with a mask of some sort. The technical filmmaking is good except for a couple of issues. What works best is the authentic cold winter setting of northern Wisconsin. I like the whole set-up of the family returning to their home town in the rural Great Lakes region and the entertaining drama thereof. Sometimes the director spends a little too much time on a mundane scene, but I felt it established the reality of the situation, so I didn’t mind. The second half is where some weaknesses rear their heads. I didn’t find the killings very convincing for the most part. For instance, when the first person is fatally attacked I giggled and thought maybe it was a prank. Most of the rest of the assaults have an unreal vibe as well and were okay at best. So the director is good at drama but needs to improve when it comes to staging action/suspense sequences. The micro-budget Indie “The Ridge” (2005) had the opposite problem: The drama of the first half is so weak it tempts the viewer to tune out, but the horrific second half wherein the killer chases the victims is superbly done. The diff between this and “The Ridge” is that “Lake Alice” features a Whodunit angle. The first half establishes 4-5 possible suspects and the scriptwriter came up with a decent conclusion (as far as whom the killer turns out to be and the details thereof). The director just needs to work out the kinks in the attack sequences. The movie runs 1 hour, 18 minutes, and was shot at Tomahawk in the Lake Alice region of northern Wisconsin. GRADE: C
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